Money Order Missing...?

When I moved(march 31,2007) I paid my last months rent with two money orders at the rental office..
My landlady has since called me,saying she lost one of the money orders and would I look for the reciept.Yes,I have looked for it but cant find it-so without the reciept is it impossible to trace or recover?What if I told her I couldnt find the reciept,can she try to collect again even though she does have a record of my payment from her own reciept book at the rental office?

Look for the receipt. If you bought it from a bank, have them go back in the records and they can tell you what number it was and then you can have them copy it and see if it was cashed.
If all else fails: take a small tape/voice recorder with you and try to get her to repeat that she lost it. Make sure you somehow are able to use her name with her responding to your using her name. Then, you tell her it's her responsiblity to find it since she acknowledges she received it. If she plays dumb, let her hear the recording. It will no doubt dampen yoor relationship with her, but so does her keeping your money.

If you have the receipt that she gave you, you're in the clear. The fact that you lost the money order receipt basically means that she lost a cash equivalent and you can't be held responsible for that.

In Australia we get money orders at the post office - it sounds like you get them at a bank. either way, wherever you got the money orders would have a duplicate copy of the payments and could photocopy them for you. then you can prove your rent was paid.

did she give u a receipt upon acceptance of your money order? i.e does it state in ur lease u paid ____ amount in security. in this case u can call whoever issued u the checks and u have to pay 30 bucks fro a reissue of tehe check , which ur landlord shoudl have to pay, 2 if u dont feel like going through the hassel, once it the money order was issued to her its her responsibility not yours, so if she lost it then it sounds like her loss for being irresponsible, u should not be held accountable for her misplacing it. but she does owe u that portion in security regardless if she lost it or not.